Women Empowerment

Damyanti Gupta, the first female engineer hired by Ford, migrated to Mumbai from Pakistan during the Partition. Here's her inspiring story.

A school teacher with Sharada Mandir School, Sabina Martins has fought for 35 years through her women’s collective to bring about significant changes for women's safety in Goa - such as an all-women police station at Panjim.

This International Men's Day, we take a look at six Indian men who are unapologetic about their passions and professions.

Punam Rai from Varanasi is the true face of courage. Despite being left paralysed for 15 years, she is empowering thousands of girls today with her organisation Bindeshwar Rai Foundation, wherein she teaches girls taekwondo and painting.

Haryana-based Pooja Sharma started Kshitiz, a self-help group, that makes homemade cookies and food items, which sell like hotcakes in five-star hotels and employ 130 women

Mohanlal and Bhagwanti Vermohal founded MV Spices in Jodhpur in the 70s. What started as a handful of handmade spices being sold on a bed sheet outside Mehrangarh Fort is today a world-famous spice business with four stores that offer over 120 products, being helmed by eight gritty women

In September 2015, Sanchayita Yadav (25), a resident of Kolkata, was attacked by an ex-boyfriend with acid. Despite the physical pain and social stigma, she bravely fought for four years to put her attacker behind bars.

Widowed at 23, Nirmal Chandel from Himachal Pradesh was shunned and insulted till she decided to take matters into her own hands to start Ekal Nari Shakti Sangathan, which works for the upliftment of widows, single and abandoned women by bringing in policy changes.

Among the people who helped build New Shephard, Blue Origin's unmanned suborbital rocket, is a young engineer from Maharashtra's Kalyan: Sanjal Gavande.

A single mother who worked as a sweeper to feed her two toddlers, Asha Kandara defied the odds to crack RAS and become a deputy collector at Jodhpur Nagar Nigam